1915404 - Enable history flooding prevention in Release

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Places, task, P3)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

We didn't get unexpected reports from Nightly, so let's proceed enabling the feature in Release.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Attachment: Bug 1915404 - Enable history flooding prevention in Release. r=daisuke

Flooding prevention has been enabled for a few months in Nightly, it
is a first step in preventing pages from sending an excessive amounts
of visits to history, that may have both performance and ranking
consqeuences.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/b25c60520aef
Enable history flooding prevention in Release. r=daisuke

Comment 3

[amarc]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b25c60520aef

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I assume we'll want a relnote for this. Please go ahead and add a relnote-firefox nomination if that's the case.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

From the user point of view nothing should change in normal conditions, as well as for normally behaving sites. thus I don't think it's necessary.
This is just some precautions against misbehaving web sites.

After discussion, let's put up a note as an heads-up.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: As an heads-up, so related issues can be noted more easily
[Affects Firefox for Android]: no
[Suggested wording]: A safeguard has been put in place to prevent history from being overwhelmed by numerous consecutive visits from a single origin.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: not yet

Comment 7

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Added to the Fx135 relnotes.